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Festive season exposes generosity and challenges of Maltese people

Thursday, 27 December 2018, 15:08 Last update: about 9 years ago Francis Zammit Dimech

In his vlog MEP Francis Zammit Dimech says that the festive season has shown the generosity of Maltese people and the challenges and realities faced by several Maltese prople.  He said that...

Identity

Thursday, 27 December 2018, 08:00 Last update: about 9 years ago Alfred Sant

During a discussion held as part of a public policy course at the University, in which I participated, we considered the advantages and disadvantages of governance in small countries. Top quality...

Message of hope

Monday, 24 December 2018, 09:51 Last update: about 9 years ago Michael Briguglio

Nationalist Party candidate for the EP election Michael Briguglio today speaks about the need to show solidarity with one another....

Myths

Monday, 24 December 2018, 08:38 Last update: about 9 years ago Alfred Sant

In our beliefs and values – we the peoples who live around the Mediterranean and its contiguous regions – have developed over centuries and millenia beautiful or at least fascinating...

Time to be generous

Monday, 24 December 2018, 07:50 Last update: about 9 years ago Simon Mercieca

A book about the history of Bormla’s Banda Club has just been published. It is written by my friend Carmel Galea Scannura who painstakingly researched the subject. It is traditionally held that...

Venice Commission opinion: is Malta a Parliamentary Democracy?

Sunday, 23 December 2018, 10:46 Last update: about 9 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Reading between the lines of the Council of Europe Venice Commission's opinion on Malta, one basic preoccupation sticks out: is Malta a parliamentary democracy? Perusal of the opinion, released...

Are they giving up on us?

Sunday, 23 December 2018, 10:00 Last update: about 9 years ago Noel Grima

I was struck, this past week, by an opinion piece I came across on the online newspaper EUobserver following the publication of the Venice Commission's report on Malta. Although access was initially...

The Venice Commission Opinion

Friday, 21 December 2018, 08:47 Last update: about 9 years ago Owen Bonnici

The Government of Malta positively welcomes the opinion of the European Commission for Democracy through Law, known as the Venice Commission. +++ On the 13th of October this year, the...

Migration

Thursday, 20 December 2018, 08:00 Last update: about 9 years ago Alfred Sant

To the same extent that the EU of 27 kept a united front with respect to Brexit, they failed to keep it and still are not keeping it with respect to migration issues. Plans or projects to establish a...

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